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How do you catch a killer no one believes in?
They call Joe Bailey the Spirit Basher. Formerly a professional magician, he’s become an ace police detective in Atlanta, debunking phony psychics and spiritualists who prey on the gullible. And he’s just caught his first sensational murder case.
The victim is the head of a university parapsychology program, impaled in his own home by a massive sculpture no one could possibly have lifted. The prime suspect: an eight-year-old boy with violent telekinetic activity that erupts in his dreams.
Could the boy possibly be the murderer? Joe doesn’t think so. And he’s determined to prove it.
But first he must separate reality from illusion. To catch this killer, he can’t even trust his own senses. Because the truth is far more terrifying than anyone imagines. And if he doesn’t get someone to believe it soon, Joe and his child will be next....
- Sales Rank: #1854183 in Books
- Color: Black
- Brand: Brand: Bantam
- Published on: 2002-01-02
- Released on: 2002-01-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.90" h x 1.05" w x 4.15" l, .43 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 400 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
From Publishers Weekly
Incredible events that beg a supernatural explanation challenge the deeply ingrained skepticism of Atlanta police detective Joe Bailey in this crafty paranormal crime thriller. A former stage magician who debunks swindling spirit mediums, psychic surgeons and similar charlatans, Bailey nicknamed the "Spirit Basher" has his work cut out for him in trying to solve the grisly death of a parapsychology professor impaled midway up the wall of his apartment by a sculpture too heavy for any person to lift. He refuses to believe that moody eight-year-old Jesse Randall, a supposed psychic prodigy, may have unintentionally murdered the man by unleashing an unconscious "shadow storm" during sleep. But while Joe is determined to prove the boy a con artist, others are not so dismissive, among them a psychopathic killer convinced that Jesse is the "Child of Light" prophesied by his millennialist cult. Though Johansen (The Answer Man) offers half-hearted psychological rationales for some characters' motives, he mostly keeps the story to its surface, which he polishes brilliantly to allow for the collision of nonstop, tricky plot complications, including a mysterious money laundering scheme by the dead prof, Joe's romance with a medium he's investigating and Jesse's helicopter abduction from a church service by armed assailants. Many, but not all, of the supernatural scams are explained by the novel's end, and readers will have fun trying to keep up with the tale's rapid pace and Johansen's nimble sleight-of-hand. (Apr. 10)101.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
A professor of parapsychology is found murdered, the body displayed halfway up the wall in his study, impaled by a sculpture. Detective Joe Bailey, a former magician and now a member of the Atlanta Police Department's bunco squad, who scouts out scams by phony psychics, is called in to ferret out the real m.o. behind what seems to be an otherworldly murder. The chief suspect, according to the dead prof's girlfriend, is an eight-year-old boy with telekinetic powers. The ever-skeptical Bailey (magic taught him there's an explanation for everything) finds his worldview shaken and his life endangered as unaccountable things start happening around him. The moves of a serial killer in Atlanta who has appointed himself the eight-year-old boy's guardian heighten the suspense. Johansen, who won an Edgar for The Answer Man (1999), introduces another tough-guy hero and a cast of off-kilter characters in an absolute stunner of a thriller. Connie Fletcher
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Raves for Roy Johansen’s The Answer Man:
“[Johansen] ... keeps the pages turning.”
— Los Angeles Times
“[Ken Parker is an] offbeat and immensely likable hero. Fascinating...The characters...are too well drawn to behave predictably.”
— The New York Times Book Review
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Disappointing
By Charlotte Vale-Allen
Johansen's first book, The Answer Man, was just terrific. So I pre-ordered Beyond Belief and the more I read, the more increasingly dismayed I became. The author starts out with a swell premise: a hero who's a debunker (along the lines of the Great Randi)-a former magician now a cop, asked to assist in solving the bizarre death of a parasychologist. There are some good characters, particularly little Jesse (who may or may not have paranormal powers) and his down-to-earth, very believable mother. Our hero, Joe Bailey, (also known as The Spirit Basher) has some good moments when he tries to find the hidden causes behind the accidents that suddenly begin threatening his life. Up to the halfway point, there's a lot of potential here. The second half, unfortunately, is so chock-a-block with bad guys that the book's believability drains away. It's a pity, because Johansen's a good writer; he doesn't go in for unnecessary gore or a lot of fussy set dressing. But this tale really does suffer from too many villains and, as a result, slides almost into Monty Python territory. ("Villain? Yes? To the right, please. Villain? Yes? To the right, please.") By the time the grand poobah of bad guys was introduced, I actually laughed.
To see what Roy Johansen can _really_ do, read The Answer Man. With luck, his next book will see him back on form again, exercising a little judicious, authorial restraint.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A fast and brilliant enigma!
By pbdiv
A baffling conundrum for the lead character, who's life's work is based on logic and the appearance of logic, keeps the reader turning pages and putting off responsibilities in order to read the next page... and the next.
A great plot with interesting, true-to-life characters make the plot twists convincing and intriguing. Reading accurate portrayals of familiar places in my hometown makes it even more fun. The fantastic finish will make your jaw drop!
This novel is a great follow up to "The Answer Man", and I eagerly await more from Mr. Johansen and the characters in "Beyond Belief".
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Better Than Answer Man: Beyond Belief by Roy Johansen
By Kevin Tipple
Sometimes when a first time author wins awards, the second book is not as good. It seems like the confirmation and praise goes to the head and the author never lives up to the true potential that was shown in the first work. Roy Johansen won an Edgar a few years back for The Answer Man. In that novel, Ken Parker runs a one man polygraph firm and is solicited to help a suspected embezzler to beat the polygraph. He accepts the job, with some misgivings and then his entire life begins to fall apart. While it is a pretty good read, this novel is so much better.
Beyond Belief opens with Joe Bailey. He works for the Atlanta Police Department and has been tagged with the nickname "Spirit Basher." Joe works the magician cons where he goes after the phony psychics and spiritualists that prey on people. Since Joe used to be a professional magician, he is pretty good at scouting out the fakers. But, usually he does not have to deal with murder.
One night, he is called out to investigate the murder of Dr. Robert Nelson. Dr. Nelson ran the parapsychology program at Landwyn University. Dr. Nelson searched for the paranormal and Joe was involved in the program as well, in the job of exposing the fakers. The two did not get along, but that isn't the issue at this point.
What is the issue is that Dr. Nelson has been found dead in his home. Not just dead, but impaled at the top of one wall by a sculpture of chrome spikes that no one could have lifted. But he is hanging there, clearly dead, and Dr. Nelson's girlfriend is convinced she knows exactly who did it. Jesse Randall, Dr. Nelson's latest and very spectacular find.
Jesse seems to have the ability to move objects with his mind. Nelson was studying Jesse and Jesse was fed up with being the object of curiosity. Jesse's anger seemed to have erupted in his sleep in "shadow storms" --violent telekinetic activity-directed at the professor. The culmination of these increasingly violent episodes was the murder of Dr. Nelson.
Joe is convinced that the boy is a fake and there is a rational explanation. As he investigates, Jesse seems to turn his anger towards Joe stepping up the pressure. Is he real and is he the Child Of Light as one of the millennial cults claims? As more and more unexplained happenings occur, and strangers seek to exploit Jesse for a cause, Joe must find out once and for all if his powers are real or not.
This is a very good book and very well written. Strong in action, the characters are multi dimensional and interesting. Mr. Johansen's writing style in this novel is completely different than his earlier work and the resulting storyline is much more complex. This thoroughly enjoyable book is one to make sure you read.
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